Tag: labour market

With the pandemic, a large chunk of the work force is now doing remote work, and apparently it is turning ...

We are only at the beginning of the economic adjustment, and it would be naive to think that older workers ...

Canada’s productive capacity of capital and labour will be curtailed for years, as business investment slumps and immigration slows, writes ...

How well we handle change is critical — it could mean either social progress or misery. Our challenge is to ...

Data show gig workers are far from being a permanent underclass struggling to join the mainstream labour force, writes Philip ...

Economically speaking, 2020 will be a mixed bag for sure, but also a chance to start fresh and perhaps to ...

The government needs a growth agenda for the economy if more money is to be put into the pockets of ...

OTTAWA, ON (December 11, 2019): Unemployment is at record lows in Canada, which usually means wages are set to rise. ...

Ideally, we would know exactly what is behind an unemployment rate that makes it look like everything is rosy. In ...

Ordering that available technologies like self-checkouts simply not be used seems like an extreme, and perhaps desperate, way to deal ...

OTTAWA, ON (September 26, 2019): In our latest issue of Inside Policy, MLI authors explore challenges facing the Canadian economy and ...

Neither the left nor the right paid enough attention to working-class anxieties until Trumpism came along. With Canada heading into ...